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...candor bordering on nonchalance. "This thing's been happening since they made county commissioners," says Parker, who at 76 is two years older than the state of Oklahoma. "Sure I took kickbacks. I never asked a man for it. They always gave it to me." Says Betty Eisenhour, who as clerk of Canadian County was an unwitting intermediary for the graft: "I always wondered why I was paying middlemen. Now I know. The commissioners were good old boys, but just between you and me, they were thieves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oklahoma! | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

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